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MACHINE FOR SPOOLING YARN-FROM THE CHAIN. No. 365.949.,

Patented July 5, 1 887.v

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MACHINE FOR SPOOLING YARN FROM THE CHAIN.

Patented July 5, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrics.

' JOSEPH STONE, OF LAWRENCE, M ASSAOH USETTS.

MACHINE FOR SPOOLING YARN FROM THE CHAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 365,949, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed Juliet}, 1885. Serial No. 168,011. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STONE. of Lawrence, County of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in'Machines for Spooling Yarn from the Chain, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the operation of spooling in separating and rewinding yarn which has been wound in the chain on a beam, and to economize time'jn such operation.

In methods now generallyp racticed for wi uding dyed yarns upon-bobbins to be used in loom-shuttles, a large number of endsseveral hundredare wound upon one beam in a beaming-machine, and the ends are led to the bobbins or spindles ofseveral spoofing-machines; but such plan, besides requiring several spooliug-machines to thereby enable all the yarns to be taken simultaneously from the single beam, also results in great waste of time, for in case any one yarn or end breaks, the spindles in all the machines have to be stopped, and all remain at rest until the end has been pieced or mended.

It has been proposed to wind printed warpthreads upon a beam or large bobbin having flanges which divide it in the direction of its length into a series of compartments, each of the latter to receive a certain number of ends or threads of the warp, and to rewind from the said compartments successively onto a series of smaller bobbins resting upon rollers and. driven thereby, the number of threads wound in each compartment corresponding with the number of receiving-bobbins in the winding-machine. In accordance with my invention, I provide a beam similar to that j ust described, having a series of flanges or divis ion-plates at a short distance apart, usually about four inches, thus separating the beam into several sections which are all filled simultaneously, or at one winding operation,by ends or yarns taken from a chain, each section of the beam between the flanges or divisionplates containing, for instance, one hundred ends or yarns, or as many of the latter as the spoofing-machine, in connection with which the beam is to be used in rewinding and sepa rating, has spindles. This beam, for convenience of transport, I mount on atruck, which may be moved into position adjacent to the windingmachine. In the operation of re winding, the yarns or ends 011 a single section of the beam are led separately to the spindles of a spoofing-machine, so that the sections are unwound independently of each other, thus leaving undisturbed the sections not at such time being unwound.

Figure 1 is a plan view of an apparatus by which my invention may be carried into effect; Fig. 2, an end view of Fig. 1, thatpart thereof beyond the dotted line as 00 being omitted.

The beam is provided with usual heads, a, and with a series of independent heads or di'- vision-plates, a (4 thus constituting several yarn-receiving sections 1) b,to receive the yarn or ends 0, each sectionb being of suflicient size to receive as many yarns or ends as there are spools d and spindles e in the spooling-machine D.

In using my apparatus the dyed yarns,preferabl y taken from a chain, are simultaneously wound upon several independent or separate sections of the beam between the flanges a a, the yarn being at the same time brushed in usual manner, the expense of simultaneously winding all the sections being substantially the same asthough butone section were wound, the time being the same. Having wound the beam so that all its sections contain ends or yarns, the said beam will be mounted in suitable bearings, 0, herein shown by dotted lines, (see Fig. 2,) extended from an upright, O, of a truck, 0, provided with rollers O to roll upon the floor, the said truck having a locking pin or device, 2, to engage holes 3 in a 'cleat screwed to the floor, the pin in the cleat locking the truck in place while the yarns or ends of any one section are being taken off by the spindles and wound upon spools or bobbins carried by the said spindles, the said yarns or ends in their passage from the beam being, as herein shown, passed over rolls d", and thence over guiding sheaves or spools d on studs (1 the yarn being thereafter separated by the pins of one or more raddles, ff, and thence through guides g of a traverse bar, h.

In the drawings,Fig. 1,the beam is shown as having had the yarns or ends unwound from SIX sections thereof, the seventh section being intheprocess of being taken off,the fi ve remaining sections being shown as containing yarn. By winding the yarns upon the beam in sections between the series of flanges, each section b of the said beam containing only the number of yarns which can be Wound by a single spoolingmachine, it is possible to employ any usual spoofing-machine and wind the yarn from the beam economically and practically, the breaking of a yarn or end in no case stopping more than the spindlesof the one machine. A beam, such as described,for receiving the dyed yarns to be wound therefrom upon spools carried by the spindles, the yarn being so applied that there may be unwound from it only the number of ends corresponding with the spindles ofonespooling-machine, results in great economy and may be employed to advantage in mills where it would be inexpedient to have several spooling-inachines in operation at one time; and, further, by a beam such as do scribed the yarns may be of different colors U upon different sections. \Vith a beam having several intermediate flanges, leaving separate sections to contain just enough yarn to co-opcrate with the spindles and spools or bobbins of one machine, weft-yarn in quantity to fill all or but part of the sections maybe Wound upon the beam; but being wound in sections or divisions, as stated, just enough yarn 111 each division to supply one spoofing-machine,

the said weft yarn may be removed from the beam from time to time as actually needed, and not all at one operation, as heretofore usually practiced; and by limiting the quantity of yarn, as stated, an end section of weftyarn may be economically and practically stored for use as desired.

I claim The combination, with the spindles of a spooling or twisting machine, of a yarn-beam having several flanges by which it is divided into sections, to contain yarns equaling in number the said spindles, a movable truck adapted to support the said yarn-beam, guiderolls, guiding sheaves or spools, raddles, and traverse-bars having guides, to operate substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH STONE.

\Vitnesscs:

B. J. NoYns,

F. CUTTER. 

